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Chelsie Acosta, Salt Lake Education Association Vice President, cheers with other educators and union members in opposition to HB 267: Public Sector Labor Union Amendments, at the Capitol in Salt Lake City, Utah, January 31, 2025
TRADE unions representing US government workers are suing President Donald Trump’s administration in an effort to stop the foreign assistance agency being closed down.
The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency launched an assault on the US Agency for International Development (USAid) last week, blocking staff from using internal systems and placing thousands of workers on administrative leave.
The Trump administration reportedly slashed the workforce from more than 10,000 to fewer than 300 employees on Thursday.
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
